Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA, Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 103–353, codified as amended at 38 U.S.C. §§ 4301–4335) was passed by U.S. Congress and signed into law by U.S. President Bill Clinton on October 13, 1994 to protect the civilian employment of active and reserve military personnel in the United States called to active ...
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the component of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) led by the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health that implements the healthcare program of the VA through a nationalized healthcare service in the United States, providing healthcare and healthcare-adjacent services to veterans through the administration and operation of ...
The Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014 ( H.R. 3230; Pub. L. 113–146 (text) (PDF) ), also known as the Veterans Choice Act, is a United States public law that is intended to address the ongoing Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014. The law expanded the number of options veterans have ...
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs ( VA) is a Cabinet -level executive branch department of the federal government charged with providing lifelong healthcare services to eligible military veterans at the 170 VA medical centers and outpatient clinics located throughout the country. Non-healthcare benefits include disability ...
In 1885, the state opened the Michigan Soldiers Home, later the Veterans Facility of Michigan, to provide care for Civil War veterans. A Board of Managers was created to set the rules and regulations and appoint the home commandant.:7 A new hospital replaced it 1906. The home was transferred into the Department of Public Health in 1970.:7
The Military Health System (MHS) is the internal health care system operated within the United States Department of Defense that provides health care to active duty, Reserve component and retired U.S. Military personnel and their dependents. The missions of the MHS are complex and interrelated:
With about 283,700 veterans residing in Wisconsin alone, and the VA not having facilities in most rural areas, veterans’ care is often outsourced to local hospitals and health systems. This ...
The United States secretary of veterans affairs is the head of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the department concerned with veterans' benefits, health care, and national veterans' memorials and cemeteries. The secretary is a member of the Cabinet and second to last at sixteenth in the line of succession to the presidency (the ...